And you don't want to always write about politics just for…

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to…

— Serge Schmemann

I can't really see myself writing about politics because I'm not really into it, and one of the worst things you can do is…

— Brian Fallon

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is…

— David Mamet

I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any…

— Ray Guy

Another problem about writing about politics in the "age of globalization" is that so much of the violence in the form of war and…

— Robert Hass

Pound described poetry as original research in language, and just as formal experiment in poetry has to try things and has to go too…

— Robert Hass

It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

— Amitava Kumar

You can write about a country without taking a stand, but you cannot write about a country without noting that there's history, and that…

— Yiyun Li

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have…

— Billy Bragg

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

— Mark Hoppus

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS…

— Grace Paley

“I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring…

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think I will ever write about politics or foreign policy. I feel like there is so much good writing in those areas…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

— Curtis Sittenfeld